Unfortunately, I fear that it's easy to see why LLMs became popular: getting anywhere in our currently arranged society requires us all to generate unreasonably large quantities of what is, frankly, total crap.
@iris_meredith I'm still very firmly anti-LLM, but I am sympathetic to the people who use them because they've either been given an impossible workload, or they've been asked to do tedious, mind-numbing, unnecessary busywork. Like cover letters. "In three to five paragraphs, cosplay loving this company without admitting you need money to eat" is such a ridiculous concept. No wonder people try to automate stuff like that.